How to setup backup server using bacula and webmin in centos. Baculaweb is a web based tool written in php that provide you a summarized view of your bacula backup infrastructure. Using any modern web browser, you can setup user accounts, apache, dns, file sharing and much more. Comments off on installing webmin, bacula 7 and bacula web on centos 7 kind of overkill to have bacula installed at my home but if youve read some of the other things ive got going on which i will post when i get a chance, you will see that everything i do is a little overkill. Installing bacula on centos 6 with webmin interface quick start guide. Configure lots of bacula elements as clients, jobs, filesets, tapelibraries, all through a graphical interface. Ive been trying to setup bacula on freenas using this guide but it appears to be too outdated. May 27, 2016 how to configure bacula server on ubuntu 15. You most likely already know what webmin is, so well skip the introductions. Bacula is a set of computer programs that permit managing backup, recovery, and verification of computer data across a network of computers of different kinds.
Bacula is a free tool that allows the admin to manage backup, recovery and send the verification of data from any systems in any location across the network. If you want to use sqlite or mysql, for the catalog, install bacula directorsqlite3 or bacula directormysql respectively. Download and start webmin download the webmin software. It is quite easier then updating the config files manually. Managing bacula from a gui interface can be done with webmin. Now you have a fully configured system for bacula, with bacula gui provided by webmin. Full installation and first configuration of bacula. I tried using the built in plugin installer but wasnt able to get it to work from there. This video shows you how to configure and perform a bacula backup using the webmin console.
Setup backup server using bacula and webmin on ubuntu. If you want to start using bacula as quickly as possible, i recommend simply following those guides. Baculum 9 graphical bacula configuration, administration. For more information about the bacula console commands check the documentation on the website. This tool was created by pedro oliveira in the beginning of 2011. Aug 06, 2014 today my topic is how to configure backup server using bacula and webmin bacula server is a good idea for scheduling backup. Bacula is relatively easy to use and efficient, while offering many advanced storage management features that. Webmin is a webbased interface for system administration for linuxunix. The steps for creating a pool, adding volumes to it, and writing software labels to the volumes, may seem. Hi everyone, im trying to configure bacula and connect it to webmin to manage my backup jobs graphically, i have installed and configured bacula and webmin successfully, but when i click on bacula backup system on webmin, it returns this error. Jul 31, 2015 install and configure bacula in ubuntu 15. This chapter presents the bacula web based interface that has been added to the bacula project for version 7. Before bacula will read or write a volume, the physical volume must have a bacula software label so that bacula can be sure the correct volume is mounted. My backup server hostname and ip address are backup.
Today my topic is how to configure backup server using bacula and webmin bacula server is a good idea for scheduling backup. It allows you to administer your server through an simple interface. Some debianbased distributions ubuntu in particular dont allow logins by the root user by default. I set up webmin module and the config for bacula on it is pretty straight forward, not much you can enter wrong but when i click save on that, using ie8 i get a blank screen. Bacula windows client install and configuration ithierarchy. In this tutorial, well show you how to install the webmin control panel on an ubuntu 18. If you are using one of the new modes such as ansiiso compatibility, you may experience problems. In this article i will show you how to install webmin on centos 7 linux. You can also download and reinstall any modules from this page that you. Click on the job you want to restore on the modules main page.
Webmin will allow any user who has this sudo capability to login with full root privileges. Playing with the config files in vi or vim to me is the fastest way to add clients, fileset and jobs. Then install bacual and mysql server using command. Jan 16, 2020 webmin is a webbased interface for system administration for unix. Now decompress the radius manager tarball using following command. Webmin removes the need to manually edit unix configuration files like etcpasswd, and lets you manage a system from the console or remotely. With the help of webmin, you can setup user accounts, apache, dns, file sharing and much more. Webmin is a webbased interface for system administrator. How to configuraing bacula with webmin on ubuntu 16. If you have never tried webmin i would strongly advise you to look into it. In technical terms, it is a network clientserver based backup program. With webmin, you can change settings for common packages on the fly. I primarily want to use it as a tape backup solution to backup to lto4 tapes.
This is usually normal, since tape drives have enabled hardware compression and the real capacity will depend in what kind of data is being backuped e. How to setup backup server using bacula and webmin. This will download the rpm and now you will need to install it by typing in the following. If i try to go back into bacula from webmin i still get a blank screen. Installing bacula windows client so we have configured bacula in bacula with tape autochanger and it working, so now we need to make it works with windows client and windows cluster. So i went on a mission to figure out how to do a fresh install of centos 7 and install bacula 7 with havi. After you have completed this step, you will want to go to webmin which you installed earlier so you can set up the database and a bacula user for the database. Webmin puts a gui on lots of system administration tasks and has a module for bacula. Perform manual or scheduled backups and restores of configuration files managed by webmin modules. Step by step deployment of bacula backup server on ubuntu 15. Webmin is a webbased systemapplication configuration tool for linux operating systems, and it helps you to manage operating systems internal such as changing passwords, disk quotas, file system, process, scheduled jobs, software packages, system logs, and much more.
How to develop a suitable disaster recovery plan for you bacula instance. At the bottom of the form, click on the restore button. This webmin module can manage a system that has one or more of the bacula daemons installed. But after installation i wasnt able to locate any way to run the bat console. You can do a little of this through the webmin interface but a lot will still have to be down through the bacula configuration pages. If you want to access webmin using an fqdn, for example, webmin.
Suppose you have just installed bacula as in my previus post here. Description, configure bacula to perform backups and restores manually or on schedule, for one or many systems. This becomes easier once you get past the learning curve, which i found easy to do with a little reading and installing webmin to see the bigger picture of bacula. Alternatively you can use webmin to make the work simpler. Now you should be able to access webmin using the ip address you used to set up the server when you. This is usually done using the label command in the console program. It is very flexible and robust, which makes it, while slightly cumbersome to configure, suitable for backups in many situations. How install bacula backup server and client on centos osradar. Setup backup server using bacula and webmin in centos. Setup backup server using bacula and webmin on centos linux.
Webmin uses port 0 so we have to ensure that the port is open on. This is my little contribution to bacula community project. Using webmin, you can setup and configure all services such as dns, dhcp, apache, nfs, and samba etc via any modern. If you look under servers, you will probably not see mysql database server because you just installed it. Machines running bacula dir, bacula sd and bacula fd must be able to resolve each other through dns or host records.
In this tutorial, let us see how to install and configure bacula on ubuntu 15. Typically you will only need one such daemon usually run on the same host as the director, but a more complex bacula setup may have multiple systems with different tape drives, to spread the backup load. Jan 19, 2014 setup backup server using bacula and webmin on centos 6. If you want to connect from a remote server and your system has a.
Schedule the transfer of files from this server to multiple servers in a webmin cluster. Bacula is an open source network backup solution that permits you to backup and restore the data from a local or a group of remote networked computers and vice versa. Records in logbook are insert, modify, delete manually by the operator. Install baculum bacula backup gui on ubuntu server ubuntu. Apr 12, 2017 once i got all the shares mounted, i created the the file set on the main bacula server for these mounts. How to install and configure bacula server on centos 7. In this tutorial, youll install and configure webmin on your server and secure access to the. How to setup backup server using bacula and webmin in. Bacula is very easy in terms of installation and configuration with many advanced storage management features. In this howto i am using mysql for database, you can use either postgresql or mysql. Download and install the latest version of webmin from here. Jun 20, 2016 install baculum bacula backup gui on ubuntu server.
Bacula is an open source network backup solution that permits you to backup and restore the datas from a local or group of remote networked computers. Install and configure webmin set up a new bacula server. Mar 25, 2019 alternatively you can use webmin to make the work simpler. Based on source forge downloads, bacula is the most popular open source backup program. Ive been searching for months now on how to install bacula 7 on centos 7 and everyone told me i had to install bacual 5x then do an upgrade to bacula 7. Setup backup server using bacula and webmin on ubuntu 14. I need to setup a full backup nightly mf to an external 4tb hd that gets swapped out every morning. It obtain his information from the bacula catalog database. This training is part of a serie that will lead you to be an administration and configuration backup experte using free software. Installing webmin, bacula 7 and baculaweb on centos 7 chris. Webmin a webbased interface for system administration. Using bacula to backup a synology nas chris couture. I have a kinda general question because i cant really determine what happend but for a while now one of my jobs is either not running at all or if the job runs the tapes never get written to the full capacity.
Reportula is a web based tool which provide you an high level summary on your bacula jobs and your bacula server statistics. If your needs are modest you might be able to get by using just the stock backup facility included with webmin. Alternatively you can use webmin to make the work more simple. May 18, 2017 hi everyone, im trying to configure bacula and connect it to webmin to manage my backup jobs graphically, i have installed and configured bacula and webmin successfully, but when i click on bacula backup system on webmin, it returns this error.
Bacula is an open source, network backup software, used to allow the system administrators tomanage backup, recovery and send the verification of datas from any systems in any location across the network. Im using webmin in these screenshots which works great however i do recommend you sftp into your main bacula server before making any changes with webmin and download the etcbacula folder before starting because i have had webmin screw. The installation of bacula, webmin and bacula web are now complete and you are ready to start setting up your clients and configuring bacula. Can you please guide on how i can run the bat console. Webmin gui to administration and configuration udemy.
Configure bacula to perform backups and restores manually or on schedule, for one or many systems. The webmin interface is the most complete bacula configuratio graphical interface available nowadays. Webmin is a modern, web control panel for any linux machine. Jan 20, 2016 how to install and configure bacula backup server on centos bacula is an open source network backup solution that allows you create backups and perform data recovery of your computer systems.
However, the user created at system installation time can use sudo to switch to root. Apr 23, 2017 this video covers the full process of installing bacula and webmin on centos 7 and shows how to set everything up to get all daemons up and running. Webmin is a webbased interface for system administration for unix. The procedure to setup backup server using bacula and webmin is explained in this article. All things linux and gnulinux this is neither a community exclusively about the kernel linux, nor is exclusively about the gnu. If disaster strikes, webmin can be used to restore backups created using this module, or even backups made manually with the tar and dump commands.
Manage bacula with webmin webmin is a webbased interface for system administration for unix. Setup backup server using bacula and webmin on centos. How to install and configure bacula data backup spiceworks. Bacula web is a web based tool written in php that provide you a summarized view of your bacula backup infrastructure. The assumption for this centos 6 tutorial is that you are running as root and have a basic understanding of the software required but if you follow this tutorial you should be able to complete the task successfully. How to setup backup server using bacula and webmin on centos 6. Baculum bacula gui is the official web graphic interface of the bacula project bacula. How to setup backup server using bacula and webmin on. Bacula server installation and configuration on centos. Installing and configuring mysql installing and configuring mysql phase i. It is very easy in terms of installation and configuration with many advanced storage management features. How to install and configure bacula server on centos 7 tech. In this tutorial, let us see how to install and configure bacula on ubuntu 14. Filesystem backupthat discusses your options and the different setups.
Run chkconfig bacula dir on, kconfig bacula sd on and chkconfig bacula fd on to make them start at startup. It is used to manage services like user management, disk managemet, network, iptables firewall, cron, apache, dns, file sharing and much more. How to install and configure bacula backup server on centos bacula is an open source network backup solution that allows you create backups and perform data recovery of your computer systems. How install bacula backup server and client on centos. Jul 20, 2016 this video explains bacula a free tool that allows the admin to manage backup, recovery and send the verification of datas from any systems. Jan 08, 2014 alternatively you can use webmin to make the work more simple. Setup backup server using bacula and webmin on centos 6. During the install process you will be asked to supply a password for the database owner of the bacula database.
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